Nonfiction
On the Road to Freedom: and From Captivity
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In 1918 a band of Czech and Slovak ex-POWs took over the Trans-Siberian railway in the course of the Russian Civil War; in effect ...Read Review
The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England
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M.J. Porter has written over 50 fiction titles on Saxon England, and she says that she wrote this, her first non-fiction book, out ...Read Review
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
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Jed Smith and guide Thomas Fitzpatrick are searching for water. It is May 1831, and the wagon train they are leading is desperate: water ...Read Review
Forged in Spain
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This book relates the biographies of 13 British men and women who volunteered to serve in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1938. The majority ...Read Review
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
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“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?… Are you aware that you are ...Read Review
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy
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For my eighth birthday my mother gave me a book, The Boy’s Book of Heroes, and it was here that I first ...Read Review
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
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In his day, Thomas Hardy was renowned for the psychological insight he brought to his female characters. As Byrne relates, Hardy the man ...Read Review
Dark Side of the Cut: A History of Crime on Britain’s Canals
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‘Cut’ is a colloquial term for a canal, and The Dark Side of the Cut is a collection of accounts of real-life violent ...Read Review
Jack and Eve: Two Women In Love and At War
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Vera (Jack) Holme and Evalina (Eve) Haverfield were a lesbian couple who were prominent in the Suffragette movement before WW1 and during the ...Read Review
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case
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Having tackled the mystery of the body of Richard III (1452-1485) missing from Bosworth Field (“My kingdom for a horse”), exhumed him from ...Read Review
